[RexBeach]

This is like saying gasoline does not power an internal comubustion engine.

Putz.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: This is like saying gasoline does not power an internal comubustion engine.

So, if WW II is to gasoline as the economy is to the engine, how do we get out out of our current economic stagnation if we were to learn from history?

[Wayne07]

The ideal economic (not moral) scenario is other countries fighting a war, using our industrial capacity to build the the capacity.

If you fight your own war, then any economic effect is just wealth transfer or additional debt. Just look at Iraq/Afghanistan. Not good economically.